Can someone please take the camera away from Diddy? The obnoxious mouth-breather took to the Internets again last night in hopes of encouraging all the "boys and girls" to vote for Barack Obama after John McCain referred to him as "that one" during the latest debate. Does Diddy have a right to be angry about this? Sure. But the way he refers to his viewers as "boys and girls" reminds us of John McCain's usage of "my friends": Both send us into fits of blind rage.
And, once again, we'd like to point out that Diddy's endorsement of Obama is much like Aubrey O'Day's or Lindsay Lohan's: It's not needed. In fact, it's probably doing more harm than good.
There's the political cesspool that is Washington, D.C., and then 100 miles away is the real melting pot of intelligent minds in The Middle of Nowhere, Virginia. Lovely reader Ruby Jackson snapped these shots in the area and passed them along to us as a morning boost. Who are these people and why are they allowed to breed?
Says Ruby:
I was recently in semi-rural Virginia, about 100 miles outside DC near Luray, and saw this display in front of a farm. Not sure what the significance of the rocks are, but it was disturbing, as well as typical sentiment for that area. Enjoy!
MCCAIN-PALIN SUPPORTERS CROSS THAT LINE We've updated our earlier post about yesterday's rabid McCain-Palin rallies to include information about how fans were screaming racial epithets at black journalists.
This racism is killing me inside! Yessir, the Republicans have done it again. They've gone and called Barack Obama, the well-educated, distinguished Senator running for President of the United States, "uppity."
Speaking with Politico, an anonymous (of course!) Bush insider used the tainted term while going over his keys for a McCain victory in November:
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"I got nothing good to say about Obama," Lacasse told News 13. "If I see anybody touching that sign, I got a club sitting right over there."
Lacasse put the sign on his lawn Saturday. A Korean War veteran, he said he was a registered Democrat until Obama won the nomination.
A picture of this charmer Lacasse after the jump.
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? This just in: one of the four racist yahoos arrested in connection to the Barack Obama "assassination plot" has the surname Adolf. It's not the one pictured here, but that guy looked the funniest with the mustache.
It's not news that on a daily basis Rush Limbaugh spews crazy vitriol like Linda Blair spewed pea soup. But it is somewhat surprising that his callers love the same movies normal people do. Here's the 'Baugh himself, on his radio show yesterday, talking about liberals "drilling for racism," Caddyshack, and a whole host of other nonsensical stuff:
We all know violent sexpot New York has no respect for herself – really, how could she? – but had you any idea how little she cares for the feelings of others?
In the newest episode of televised pockmark New York Goes to Hollywood, Pollard attempts to research Japanese culture for an upcoming commercial role. Of course, she goes about this not by heading to the library for The Book of Five Rings or scouring Wikipedia, but by asking every Asian person she sees if they can explain Japan. (To a Korean dry cleaner: "Is that the same as being Japanese, or, like, not at all?") HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hilarious! And ironic, considering how the underlying joke here – New York doesn't get that all Asians aren't the same – is pretty similar to one that's plagued blacks for hundreds of years.
We'd love to see how well Pollard would take it were a Japanese person to approach her and ask how she played a crackhead so well in Jungle Fever.
Oh, Jamaican media, do you really want to shake that "Everyone in Jamaica is a dull pothead" myth? If so, what the hell possessed you to you publish black writer Michael Dingwall's recent essay, "Slavery was good for the black man," in a real newspaper? Not only is it horribly written and its punctuation a mess, it's factually inaccurate and deeply, vastly offensive.
Dear L’oreal: We didn’t know you marketed a skin whitening cream in the United States. Could you send us a sample? xo (Click for larger image)
Goddamn, The South! Y'know, we really do try to cut you some slack – seriously, we do – but you just make detesting you so easy sometimes.
During a July 30 interview on talking face Glenn Beck's radio broadcast, Toby Keith, Oklahoman and the musical genius behind the hit pro-lynching anthem "Beer for My Horses," told Beck that he thinks Barack Obama is highly successful with black Americans because "he don't talk, act or carry himself like a black person." Keith then added that he thinks "black society" views Obama as a "Caucasian." HE SAID THIS ON LIVE RADIO WITHOUT ANY SHAME! (Listen for yourself up above.)
For a minor but hilarious consolation, listen for when Beck, shocked, demands, "What does that even mean?" and the doofy Keith responds, "Well, I don't know what that means," sounding like a scolded puppy. Oh, Toby Boy, do you know what anything means?
This is what racists are worried Kwanzaa mornings will look like if Obama wins. They are so right, and we can't wait.
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Even more new information about that Josh Brolin-Jeffrey Wright bar brawl in Shreveport, Louisiana: TMZ is reporting that the "slur" mentioned in our earlier post came not from a fellow bar patron, but Brolin and Wright's arresting officers, who tased and pepper-sprayed the two actors before calling Wright a "nigger."
Update: Actually, both rowdy bar patrons and police officers called Wright a nigger. Nice to hear Louisianans of all stripes finding unity after Katrina.
• Big Brother already has its first racial slur, and the season just started two days ago. [DListed]
• Miley Cyrus seriously needs to just stop taking pictures of herself. [Yeeeah]
• Jay-Z's hotel request: "One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mold of Beyonce's breasts. Two cherries were used as nipples." [INO]
• Who wants to see Britney Spears shooting a video in an elevator? [PS]
• Jake Gyllenhaal finds his Blackberry more interesting than Reese's kids. [PITNB]
• The end is nigh: Tyra Banks has been named the hardest working person in showbusiness. [ICYDK]
Oh, The South, what are we gonna do with you?
That scuffle with Shreveport, Louisiana locals and police officers that resulted in the arrests of Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and several others associated with the film W? Turns out it began after a good ol' Looziana boy hurled a racial slur at Wright.
BACKTRACKING "On his radio show this morning, [Don Imus] said he was just trying to 'make a sarcastic point' when he asked yesterday, about arrest-happy NFL player Pacman Jones, 'What color is he?' As Imus tried to explain, 'What people should be outraged about is that they arrest blacks for no reason. I mean, there's no reason to arrest this kid six times.'"
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